Economics and the economy; The tools of economic analysis; Demand, supply and the market; Government in the mixed economy; The effect of price and income on demand quantities; The theory of consumer choice; Business organization and behavior; Developing the theory of supply – costs and production; Perfect competition and pure monopoly – the limiting cases of market structure; The analysis of factor markets – labor; Capital and land – completing the analysis of factor markets; Introduction to welfare economics; Taxes and government spending; Industrial policy and competition policy; Privatization and regulation; International trade and commercial policy.

Macro Economics *

Introduction to macro economics and national income accounting; The determination of national income; Aggregate demand, fiscal and foreign trade; Money and modern banking; Central banking and the monetary system; Aggregate supply, the price level and speed of adjustment; Inflation; Open economic macro-economics; Economic growth; The business cycle; Macro-economics – where do we are; The international monetary system.

Introduction; The financial markets and interest rates; Understanding financial statements and cash flows; Evaluating a firm’s financial performance; Financial forecasting, planning and budgeting; The time value of money; Valuation and characteristics of bonds; Valuation and characteristics of stock; The meaning and measurement of risk and return; Capital-budgeting techniques and practice; Cash flows and other topics in capital budgeting; Determining the financial mix; Dividend policy and internal financing; Introduction to working-capital management; Liquid asset management; International business finance.

Entrepreneurship today; Small businesses and the Internet economy; The entrepreneur; Women-owned and minority-owned businesses; Family businesses; Business growth and the entrepreneur; Home-based growth and the entrepreneur; Global business; Staring a new business; Buying an existing business; Franchising and other alternatives; The business plan – introduction, marketing, management and personnel, startup costs and financing, projected financial statements, the legal section, insurance, supplies, risks, assumptions and conclusions; Case studies.

Introduction; Four ethical theories; What is a corporation – can a corporation have a conscience; principle of moral projections; the corporation as a moral person; business ethics and stakeholder analysis; What are proper business practices – ethics on competition; the principle of fair competition; in defense of advertising; a model to explore the ethics of erotic stimuli in print advertising; appropriate behavior in electronic communication; technology and business ethics; ethical dilemmas in the use of information technology; Ethical issues within the corporation – working conditions in home care; holding corporations accountable; the future of affirmative action; paradoxes facing women of color in organization; sexual harassment in the workplace; women in corporate boards; The context of business –ethics in need of regulation; a reflective model of environmental regulation; bribery and implicit agreements; why an international code of business would be good for business; ethics of accounting regulation; ethics and international development.

Installation and Overview; Security and Internal Controls; New Company Setup for a Merchandising Business; Working with Inventory, Vendors, and Customers; Accounting Cycle and Year End; First Month of the New Year; Project 1: Your Name Hardware Store; Project 2: Student-Designed Merchandising Business; Microsoft Office Accounting Tools and Fixed Assets; Integration with Microsoft Office-Excel and Word; Project 3: Student-Designed Forms

Part III: Table of standard results; Methods of integration; Integration of algebraic relational functions; Integration of trigonometric functions; Integration of irrational functions; Definite integral as the limit of a sum; Areas of plane regions; Rectification; Lengths of plane curves; Volumes and surfaces of revolution; Center of gravity; Moment of inertia; Differential equations of the first order and first degree; Equations of first order but not of the first degree; Trajectories of a family of curves; Linear equations; References

Introduction to operations management; The design of goods and services; Break-even analysis; Inventory control; MRP; Facilities layout; Materials handling equipment; Warehouse design; Line balancing; Capacity planning; Facilities design and layout strategy. Operations management; The planning and control of the transformation process within the framework of different manufacturing and service delivery philosophies; Capacity planning and location strategy; Tactical production planning and short-term scheduling techniques; Aspects of production planning and control will be integrated in a formal structured ERP-system with the development of a feasible production schedule.

Kinematics; Forces; Rectilinear motions; Motion under gravity; Work, power and energy; Rectilinear motion of a particle under varying force; Equilibrium of a particle; Forces on a rigid body a specific reduction of a system of forces; Center of mass; Stability of equilibrium; Hanging strings; Impact; Motion of a projectile under gravity; Circular and cylindrical motions; Central orbits; Moment of inertia; Two dimensional motion of a rigid body; Virtual work.

The structure and operation of air transport; Forecasting of air transport demand using both traditional and new methods; Airport systems planning; Airport master planning; Air traffic control, lighting and signing; Airport capacity and configuration; Passenger terminal; Air cargo facilities; Airport access; Designing for safety; Environmental impact of airports.

Introduction; Quantity of water; Sources of water supply; Intake works and transportation of water; Pumps and pumping; Quality of water; Purification of water; Distribution systems; Underground drainage and sewerage systems; Surface and storm water drainage; Sewer appurtenance and sewage pumps; Microbiology of sewage; Sewage disposal and treatment; Water supply and drainage of buildings; Environmental sanitation

Volume One; An introduction to the restoration; The nature of building and decorative stones; Igneous rocks; Sedimentary rocks; Metamorphic rocks; Determination of a sample; Weathering and decay of masonry; Volume Two: Methods of repairing and consolidating stone buildings

Structural failure and repair; The selection of stone for repairs; Mortar for stone buildings; Traditional handwork of stone; Earthquake damage to historic masonry structures; Cleaning masonry buildings; Surface treatments; The conservation of stone monuments in churches; The conservation of stone sculpture in museums; The museum display of architectural features; The cleaning of painted stone

Preparation of construction drawings; Construction materials; Paving; Curbs and edgings; Steps and ramps; Walls and fences; Structures – decks, shelters and bridges; Play and recreational equipment; Site furniture and fixtures; Pools, ponds and fountains; Site limitations.

International Building Code *

Building codes; Navigating the code; Use and occupancy; Special uses and occupancies; Building heights and areas; Types of construction; Fire-resistance-rated construction; Interior finishes; Fire protection systems; Means of egress; Accessibility; Interior environment; Energy efficiency; Exterior walls; Roof assemblies; Structural provisions. And, The National building codes of the student’s country of residence.

Projects in which simple machines must be designed for static strength up to detail drawing level; The following elements must be present in the projects: Prescribed performance in terms of position, velocity and acceleration; Machine components such as seals and roller bearings; Chain and belt drives. Lead screws; Springs; Clutches and breaks

A system approach to maintenance and its management; Maintenance strategies including condition monitoring and control of performance by ensuring contamination, leakage, fluid, chemical, physical, cavitation, temperature, wear and mechanical stability; Reliability through design, procurement, maintenance, repair, replacement and stockholding; The systematic generation of a maintenance schedule.

TEXTBOOK 2: Preliminary considerations; The evolution of the airplane and its performance; Aerodynamics of the airplane – the drag polar; Propulsion characteristics; The equations of motion; Airplane performance – steady flight and accelerated flight; Airplane design; The philosophy of a propeller-driven airplane; Design of jet-propelled airplane

A system approach to maintenance and its management; Maintenance strategies including condition monitoring and control of performance by ensuring contamination, leakage, fluid, chemical, physical, cavitation, temperature, wear and mechanical stability; Reliability through design, procurement, maintenance, repair, replacement and stockholding; The systematic generation of a maintenance schedule.

Aircraft Performance and Design *

Preliminary considerations; The evolution of the airplane and its performance; Aerodynamics of the airplane – the drag polar; Propulsion characteristics; The equations of motion; Airplane performance – steady flight and accelerated flight; Airplane design; The philosophy of a propeller-driven airplane; Design of jet-propelled airplane

Animal Agriculture, Breeds and life cycles of livestock and poultry, Animal products, Companion animals, Horses, Aquaculture, State of breeding of domestic animals, Anatomy and physiology of farm animals, The application of endocrinology to selected animals and humans, The physiology of growth and senescence, Anatomy and physiology of reproduction and related technologies in farm management, Artificial insemination, Physiology of lactation, Physiology of egg laying, Ecology of digestion in nutrition, The nutritional application of minerals to humans and animals, Animal disease and the health of humans, Selected insects and parasites of significance to humans and animals, Ethnology and animal behavior, Reference information.

General Crop Science

Crop production and society, Plant structure and function, Plant metabolism and growth, Crop improvement, Climate and weather, Soil and land, Plant and soil water, Pests in crop production, Agricultural production systems, Land preparation and farm energy, Seed and seeding, Harvesting and storage of crops, Marketing and handling grain crops, References.

Techniques of circuit analysis; Topology in circuit analysis; The operational amplifier; First order and second order electric circuits; Mutual inductance; Sinusoidal steady state analysis and power calculations; Balanced 3-phase circuits.

Introduction to power systems; Single and three phase alternating current theory; Per-unit system; Symmetrical components; power transformers; Modeling of transmission lines; Steady state operation of transmission lines; Introduction to power flow.

Electrical Power Systems II (analysis)*

. 1. Power System Components:

Single line diagram of power system, Brief Description of Power system elements such as, Synchronous Machine, Transformer, Bus bar, Circuit Breaker, isolator, CT, PT.

Construction and classification of cables for single and three phase service, Insulation resistance, capacitance and dielectric stresses in cable, Most economical conductor size in cables, Grading of cables, capacitance grading and inter-sheath grading, Capacitance of three core cable and measurements of capacitances, Methods of laying underground cables.

Principles of power electronics; Power devices, diodes and transistors: Thyristors and triggering; Converter circuits; DC to controlled AC; AC to DC with and with no control; AC to Ac controlled; Resonant converters; Power factor correction; Converter control; Power supplies; Motor drives; Temperature control.

Introduction and the origins of resources – minerals the foundation of society; The origins of earth resources; History and environmental impact of resource; usage – earth’s resources through history; Environmental impacts of resource exploitation and use; Metals – abundant metals; The geo-chemically scare metals; Fertilizer, chemical, construction and industrial resources; Fertilizer and chemical minerals; Building materials and other industrial minerals; Water and soil for life support – water resources, soil as a resource; Future resources

Coordinates; The plane; Right line; Interpretation of equations; Loci transformation of coordinates; The sphere; Cones and cylinders; Homogeneous Cartesian coordinates; The conicoid; Plane sections of conicoids; Generating lines of conicoids; General equations of the second degree: confocal conicoids: References.

Calculus revision; Equations of the first order and of degree higher than one; Linear equations of second and higher order; Simultaneous equations; Euler’s homogeneous linear differential equations; Practical applications; Method of variation of parameters; Total differential equations; Laplace transform; Co-ordinate geometry; The plane and the straight line; The sphere.

Elementary differential equations; Equations of first order and first degree; Trajectories; Linear equations with constant coefficients; Homogeneous linear equations and Cauchy-Euler equations; Equations of the first order but not of the first degree and singular solutions; Extraneous loci; Ordinary simultaneous differential equations; Number integration; Picard’s interactive methods; Existence and uniqueness theorems; Independence of solutions of linear differential equations; Linear equations of second order; Simultaneous equations of the form dx/R = dy/Q=dz/R; Total differential equations; Riccati’s equations; Integration in series; Series solutions of linear differential equations; Legendre polynomials and functions; Legendre functions of second kind; Hermite polynomials; Laguerre polynomials; Partial differential equations’ Linear partial differential equations of order one; Non-linear partial differential equations with constant coefficients; Partial differential equations of order two with available coefficients; Monge’s methods

Linear and Non-Linear Programming

PART I: Mathematical background; Matrixes; Partitioning of matrixes; Determinant properties; Inverse of a square matrix; Elementary transformations of a matrix; Rank of a matrix; Vectors and vector spaces null vector; Unit vector of addition of vectors; Subtraction of vectors; Scalar multiplication of a vector and scalar product of vectors; Euclidean space; Linear dependence and independent vectors; Linear combination of vectors; Important points; Spanning of a set; Basics of a set